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I voted "no" only because I don't think it really works - not because I'm anti-corporal punishment.
As a deterrent, it fails because I don't think that criminals *really* stop and think as they are committing some heinous crime "Hey, wait a minute - if I do this I might get the death penalty!". Plus, I read once that the average criminal sentenced to death spends something like 14 years on "death row" while his multitude of appeals, etc., are processed. All at the cost of something like $49k/year to the taxpayers.
Maybe it provides some closure to victim's families, but in the end I don't think it's the right answer because aside from removing the criminal from society, I don't think it solves anything. Do some people *deserve* it? Yeah. Is it the right thing for us to do? I'm not convinced.
Mike
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